Channel-flap-laying and bottom-cleaning machine.



No. 633,836. Patented Sept 26, I399.

.1. B. 'HADAWAY.

CHANNEL FLAP LAYING AND BOTTOM CLEANING MAUI-"NE.

(Application filed Apr. 28, 1 898.)

(No llodel.)

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PATENT Gin-From JOHN B. I'IAD'Aj-IVAXQ OF BROGKTON, MASSACHUSETTSJ CHANNEL-FLAP-LAYlNGAND BOTTOM-CLEANING MACHlNE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,836, dated September 26, 1899. Application filed April 26, 1898. berialNo. 678,865. (No model.)

zen'of the United States, residing at Brockton in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and use-. i'ul Improvements in Channel-Flap-Laying and Bottom- Cleaning Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,

and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

As boots and shoes arenow commonly m'an-v ufactured after the sole has been stitched to the lasted upper andinsole'and the channelflap has been turned back over the channel to cover the out seam an operation commonly called laying the channel-flap before the shoe is taken to the beating-out or leveling machine, which imparts to the sole its final shape and set, it is necessary that the bottom of the sole should be cleaned to remove any dust, particles of wax, or other foreign substance which would be rubbed into the sole by the action of the leveling-machine. The operation of cleaning the bottom of the sole has heretofore in so far as I am advised of the state of the art been performed as a separate and distinct operatic n from the channel-fiap-laying operation and com monly. bya rotary brush or other suitable device applied to the shoe after'the channel-flap-laying operation has been completed.

The object of the present provide a machine embodying channel-flaplaying mechanism and bottom-cleaning mechanism arranged to cooperate with each other to produce at a. single operation from a shoe with an unlaid channel-flap a clean smooth sole ready forthe leveling operation; and to the above end the present invention consists of the combination, with chztnnebfiap-laying mechanism, of a bottom-cleaning device, as hereinafter more fully described in this specification and pointed out in the claims, the accompanying drawing illustrating a preferred form thereof. 4

The single view-0f the drawing shows all essential features of a device embodying the present invention, the'view being taken partially in section and partially in elevation.

In the drawing, A represents a disk or wheel which'is rotated by the'shat't a and i the present invention.

invention is to' which is provided with a rim ct, from which are radially projected the chan nelsflap-l'ayin g blades a As shown, the disk or wheel A is arranged to yield laterally and torsionally to prevent the blades c from injuring the sole during the operation of the machine.

The construction of the disk A and its actuating mechanism and the means for rendering it laterally and torsiona'lly yielding may be and conveniently are the same as heretofore fully'disclosed by me in Letters Patent No. 576,114, issued February I may say, however, that the present invent-ion is by no means limited to devices above referred to or to any specific form of channel-flap-laying mechanism, such mechanism being susceptible of great variation in construction, organization, and mode of operation without involving any departure from Returning to the specific form of my invention illustrated in the drawing, the bottomcleaning mechanism consists of an annular brush 13, secured to the disk'A and which projects between the blades c in position to act upon the sole simultaneously therewith. The brush proper may be made of bristles h of any suitable material and, as'shown, is provided with the annular'back 19, preferably of wood, which is secured by a series of screws 12 in an annular angle-piece Z7 which is secured by a series of bolts b to the rim a. In

said patented machine and by the combination of devices heretofore described lays the channel and cleans the bottom of the sole at a single operation and in substantially the same time required to lay the channel.

Having thus described my invention, I

, 2, 1897, and no fur-' ther description thereof is deemed necessary herein.

c I havein the form of v claim as novel and desire to protect by Letters Patent- 1. In a channel-flap-laying and bottomcleaning machine, the combination with channel flap-laying mechanism, of a bottom-clean- 5 ing' device arranged to cooperate therewith to simultaneously lay the channel-flap and clean the bottom of the sole of a boot or shoe, snbstantially as described.

2 In a channel-flap-laying and bottomcleaning machine, the combination with channel-flap-laying mechanism, of a bottom-cleaning brush arranged to cooperate therewith to simultaneously lay the channel-flap and clean the bottom of the sole of a boot or shoe, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' JOHN B. HADAXVAY. lVitnesses:

T. HART ANDERSON, HORACE VAN EVEREN. 

